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Encouraging Input and Ideas

Persuasive Powerhouse

Managers don’t have the franchise on ideas. The tactics above will help you to get more input. What other tactics have you seen leaders use that successfully encourage new ideas? The world of work is way too complex now and there are so many things to consider. Which one of these behaviors are you willing to try?

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Refining Your Craft: 4 Aspects of Business Every Restaurant Owner Can Improve

Strategy Driven

From focused franchise accounting services to one-off consulting projects, the required kinds of support are now readily accessible. Tactics like these consistently help restaurant operators make much-needed progress. Fortunately, that is easier to achieve than at any time in the past.

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The Case for Leadership Development

Great Leadership By Dan

They don’t have anyone at a higher level of management to induce them to develop unless they are members of a franchise that requires development beyond “technical” development. It’s difficult to focus on personal development when the bosses are “up to their asses in alligators.” Personal drive to develop exists.

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George Steinbrenner: the King of Consequences

Roundtable Talk

Steinbrenner was a larger than life leader, who’s micro managing tactics repeatedly came under fire. Steinbrenner knew that in pursuit of his objective to make the New York Yankees the number one franchise in baseball, it’s better to be respected than to be liked. How about you?

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

If you’re a manager, consider unconventional hiring as a deliberate tactic to shake up your business. But it’s who Aumiller hires that is most disruptive: She consistently looks outside her domain, hiring employees from fashion, chemical manufacturing, franchising, and other disciplines.

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How Customers Come to Think of a Product as an Extension of Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Both of these tactics should elicit feelings of ownership. Star Wars fans are notorious for their psychological ownership of a film franchise they know intimately. Realtors offer customers virtual reality tours of hard-to-visit homes, with the additional option to virtually customize a home they are considering.

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How to Build Brand Religion

Harvard Business Review

I’ve seen much of this first-hand: My wife recently started working at SoulCycle, arguably one the most cult-like exercise franchises out there today. In my estimation, all these tactics ladder up to one governing principle: the founders made a conscious decision to build a brand, not a gym.

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